Feeder for bagasse roller-mills



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A. HANEBERG.

- FEEDER Pore, BAGASSE ROLLER MILLS.

No. 354,900. Patented Dec. 28, 1886.

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A. HANEBERG.

FEEDER FOR BAGASSE ROLLER MILLS.

' No. 354,900. Patented Dec, 28, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT 1 OFFICE,

ARMIN HANEBERG, OF KOLOA, KAUAI, HAWAII.

F EEDER FOR BAGASS E ROLLER-MILI S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,900, dated December 28, 1886.

Application filed June 19, 18516. Serial No. 205,734. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARMIN HANEBERG, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Koloa, Island of Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feeders for Bagasse Roller-Mills, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Of late it has become the practice at sugarcaneplantations, after the cane has been crushed between a three-roller mill for squeezing out therefrom the greatest portion of its saccharine juice, to pass the refuse, known as bagasse, through a second two-roller mill, that will express therefrom the remainder of the saccharine juice. This bagasse, however, is of a nature that, by its gravity or frictional adhesion alone, it will not readily enter between the rollers, and on account of the irregular feed caused thereby the operation heretofore has not been uniform, and the machine frequently had to come to a standstill, which necessitated the stopping of the entire plant of machinery. I

The object of my invention, therefore, is 0 provide a device that will automatically force the bagasse between the rollers-in uniform small quantities, and thereby insure a perfect operation with the most economical results;

and to this end my invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a transverse vertical section of a two-roller mill having my feed mechanism; Fig. 2, an end elevation of the same, showing the feed-operating mechanism; Fig. 3, a front elevation of the machine with the chute or hopper removed; and Fig. 4, an end elevation of Fig. 3, showing the manner of attaching some of the feed-operating parts to the rollermill housings.

Corresponding letters in the several figures of the drawings designate like parts.

A and A denote the two cylindrical rollers, mounted upon shafts a and a, journaled in boxes B and B, that are fitted into the parallel vertical openings of the two housings C and 0, having caps a secured thereon by screwbolts. These housings O O are rigidly bolted upon a bed-plate, D, and are connected at their tops by brace-rods d. Upon the protruding ends of shafts a and a are mounted spur wheels E and E, that mesh with each other and insurea simultaneous uniform rotation of both rollers A and A. The lower shaft, a, is the driving-shaft;

F and F are two plates having flanges which are secured by bolts f f against the edges of housings O and G, and have upward extensions f and f, and the plates FF, as well as their extensions ff, are connected by the inclined wooden bottom G, which, together with said plates and extensions, forms the chute or feed-hopper for the bagasse. A horizontal table, H, secured between the plates F and F, forms the bottom for the hopper and a close joint with the periphery of roller A, and between this table H and hopper G is placed the hollow cast feed-bar I, guided between strips h of plates F. This feed-bar I has secured to it angular eye-plates i, forming pivotal connections with the slotted upper ends of two arms, J, rigidly mounted upon rockshaft K, that is journaled in boxes is, bolted against the housings O and O. The overhanging end of this shaft K has mounted upon it a slotted crank, L, engaging with a pin, Z, of a pendulum-lever, M, pivotally secured by a pin, m, to a lug of housing 0. This lever M is formed with a double pawl or pallet, N, on its upper end, the points a n of which engage the teeth of spur-wheel E in a manner to produce an oscillating movement of lever M with the advancement of each tooth, which oscillating movement is communicated, by lever M, pin Z, and slotted crank L, to rock-shaft K, which, by the connection of its arms J with bar I, will impart a reciprocating motion to said bar. A small quantity of bagasse dropping in front of bar I with each return movement thereof,

such bar will, with each advance movement,

push a uniform amount between the rollers, thus insuring an uninterrupted regular feed of the bagasse that is proportional to the speed of the rollers.

What I claim is 1. The combination, in a bagasse roller-mill,

of the feed-hopper having a horizontal bottom plate, the rollers, a horizontally-reciprocating feed-bar interposed between the feed-hopper and said bottom plate and in line with the entering space between the rollers, and means for operating said bar, as set forth.

5 2. In a bagasse roller-mill, the combination,

with the feed-hopper, the rollers, and spur- .wheels, of a reciprocating bar, a pawl having two points engaging with one of said spurwheels, and connections between said pawl 10 and the feed-bar, substantially as described.

3. In a bagasse roller-mill, the combination,

with the feed-hopper and rollers, of the feedbar I, rock-arms J, shaft K, having crank L, pendulum-lever M, having pawl N, with points 11. n, and spur-Wheel E, all substantially as and 15 for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARMIN HANEBERG. Witnesses:

J AOOB HARDY, M. RICHTER. 

